Re: Replacing first character in a string

Lee, Try: if (substr($rawPOINTS,0,1)==",") { substr($rawPOINTS,0,1)="0"; } It's obvious and unglamorous, but it does the trick. Michael Lewis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee P. Reilly" <lreilly@lanl.gov> To: "PHP" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 4:03 PM Subject: [PHP] Replacing first character in a string > Hi there, > > I wonder if anyone can help me? I have a string something like this: > ",.00109863,.00219725,.00329588.... and so on....". > > If the *first character* in the string is a comma (as in the case above) > then I want to replace it with "0,", but I cannot find a way to do it. > E.g. say the above string is called $rawPOINTS, what would be in the > body of the if loop below to replace the comma? > > if ($rawPOINTS[0] == ",") > { > // hmmmm.... > } > > I can think of a few long winded ways of do it, but are there any "one > liner" string manipulation functions I can use? I shall look into > regular expressions, but if anyone could tell me the solution I'd > appreciate it ;-) > > - Thanks, > Lee > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >